Happy 6/21 everyone! Keeping up the tradition of a yearly Esix for the big day.
This is kind borderline for furry_irl, but I think with people memeing about 6/21 a bunch and with how small of a window it is, I'd prefer it here over furry. What are your tag(s)? >:3
IMO: they need to add an Ai tagging feature to E621. Ai is basically purpose built for image tagging. Then users could upvote/downvote accurate tags the Ai suggested. If the tag is highly upvoted, then it could be added to the image. Welcome to my Ted talk.
Thanks for listening to my rant
AI is controversial morally and resource hungry. Why use an AI model and have users check it when the users could just add the tags themselves?
Because they don't. Many images get uploaded to E621 with few tags, only enough to allow the upload. The other problem is that people may not be aware of the tags they can add. E621 allows for a lot of very specific tags. If a character is wearing a swimsuit, you could add that as a tag. You could also be way more specific and say what kind of swimsuit and what color. The goal should be to maximize the number of accurate tags per image so its easier to find what you're looking for. Yes, Ai can be very resource hungry to train, but thats the trade off. I see no moral issue with training an Ai to identify commonalities between images and quantify those common elements. We aren't using this Ai to replace artists, only help volunteers who tag their images.
Speaking of specific tags, one I often search is "Dolphin Shorts" (basically shorts with usually a single stripe down the side) and many images that feature them don't have that tag. Probably because most people don't know that is what they are called.
Exactly this! Most people would just add "shorts" and not specify what kind. I try to be as explicit as possible. I'll colors, styles, textures, and whatever else I can think of or that gets suggested.
I don't know how to even add tags without having uploaded something myself... 😕
If you have an E621 account, click the "edit" button under the image. There will be a few boxes where you can enter in meta data about the image. This can include extra sources, general tags, descriptions, and parent posts.
Ah... It's right next to the comment button; I assumed it was to edit your comment 🤣
How would you train such a model given that there isn't much public domain furry art?
Thats probably the biggest challenge. E621 would have to make it an opt-in program. I haven't read their ToS so it's possible they already reserve the right to use the images uploaded to their site for any purpose they want. That wouldn't be the right thing to do though.